What a miserable person you are.

the district used to lose a lot more students going into 11th grade then it does now. Just sayin'...

Like you know anything. I want a middle school.

Not funny, actually a pathetic jab at a child (and you are still at in this post), and good riddance.

Good riddance.

Both boys are very proud of their moms. They're just kids. No need for a tux and cummerbund.

And both are old enough to read your snark. I hope they don't.

What do you expect coming from a party animal whose only goal is to save St. Patrick's Day. peopleplease disgusts me.

Maybe in your new town it will be explained to you that you have a stake in the schools whether you have a child enrolled or not. Not that you'll listen.

The guy is a disgusting piece of crap. One less piece of garbage in our city.

These are terrific boys and good boys and good sons who love their moms and wouldn't miss that moment for the world. Only a shallow, superficial jackass would say such a thing about somebody's children.

Gagliardi- He was the superintendent in charge during the horrible audits and hiding of the 11th grade students. This is what you describe as firing on all cylinders? Glad the people you support didn't get in.

I trust the that fish rag about as far as I could through an elephant.

It is free paper, run by reality powers. That paper has it paymasters and it not the readers.

Before Mr. Yoon-Hendricks posted his analysis of the attendance numbers I was concerned about them. So were a lot of people.

You can run, but you can't hide, and that is why Kids First won again.

The schools are giving kids additional tests (Scholastic brand) which I think is helping them find and help the kids that will have trouble with the state tests. The old crew knew which kids not to test, and hid them instead of helping them. For that they should pay some very serious karmic debt.

I doubt Gagliardi had it running so well and without honest numbers how can we ever know?

When you say debunked, you mean that the old board wrote a letter saying it didn't happen? I remember doing a specific statistical analysis that showed a less than 1 in a million chance of the loss of students that occurred being due to random chance. Passkey actually agreed with my analysis, and noone attempted refutation.

Please note that my statistical analysis is summarized in the thread here: http://hoboken.patch.com/blog_posts/hoboken-high-school-by-the-numbers If you want to find it, search for significant. To my knowledge, no honest explanation has ever been attempted on the patch boards, the Hoboken education project, Hoboken411, Horse, GA, or any other site for the fact that there is a statistically significant drop in 11th graders for many years in a row. Noone has questioned the accuraccy or veracity of my numbers or analysis. Simply stated, unless someone can give me at least a plausible explanation, I'll stick with the simple solution.

A more recent audit of the Kids First board (2011 rather than the decade old audit recallbethmason references) showed over $750,000 in uncollected lunch fees and legal fees 3X the state average--- the 2012 audit will find little progress has been made. Under Kids First HHS went from "2nd most improved hs in NJ" to the bottom 10% of high schools and the entire district is now a "District in Need of Improvement". Seems that filling the district with rejects from Planfield, Bayport, and Newark isn't working out... LMAO. Current district population is 1600 minus about 200 "School Choice" students from out of the city. Parents are abandoning the district in droves.

CG,At the meeting, 750k cost was said to be the total cost of the lunch program not the uncollected cost. This 750k cost was down from the average 1.1mm cost that prior administrations had experienced as was the uncollected portion.

I am sure you'll be happy to know that The district website shows many new programs, that were put in place, to deal with future uncollected funds.

The outside firms doing the lunch fees are a disappointment. I pay my bill, but have no itemized info on what I'm paying. More people would pay if the system was better. But Hoboken did not build the system or run it.

Lunch vs. spending money on stipends to Atlantic City?

My kid is in the schools and I trust my eyes and her experience more than I trust you CuriousGal.

CG, did it ever occur to you that students leave because new charter and private schools open up? It's an exorption rate issue and is endemic to EVERY municipality. To you save you the time of slamming the local district schools- that includes highly ranked and "wealthy" populated districts.

CuriousGal always forgets that one reason people leave Hoboken is because it is hard for some people to have more than 2 kids in a 2 bedroom apartment.

Housing wise you can get more bang for your buck in the suburbs. Everyone that I know that is leaving town is leaving because they have outgrown their living space.

I do know of one complaint about the schools. that it is hard to do the pick up and drop off if you have a kid in the pre-k in one building and in elementary school in another building.

pdq- here's the FULL story on the $783,000 debt and the legal fee audit from a year ago: "A recently completed annual audit of the Hoboken public schools has showed that the district owes $783,000 to its food services vendor Chartwells." READ: http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/school-audit-finds-783-000-food-services-debt

Journey- as typical you set up a false choice: Lunch vs. spending money on stipends to Atlantic City? Atlantic City is were just about EVERY professional organization meets in the State of New Jersey.

You don't need to "believe" or "not believe" what I write about. Like under Kids First the percentage of students attending a public school that failed to meet federal and state adequate yearly progress criteria has risen from 14% to over 90%???

I present the facts and the evidence. I have no influence nor do I want to have influence on how people vote at the ballot box. But from I see and hear-- parents are clearly voting with their feet and taking their kids out of these schools. That is very clear. And that is because of Kids First.

Again, that is the cost of the food service program. The food service program is outsourced to chartwells.

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_story/push?article--SCHOOL+AUDIT-+Student+funds+reimbursed+teacher+for+lost+-400+iPod-%20&id=4593303

You honestly don't believe that there is any correlation between attendance at the district schools due to the option of 9 different school districts in one square mile?

Explains a lot!

The rest of the country and the world would disagree with you, including Finland, the world "leader" in education.

CG, as typical, you are trying to say that things are OK by bringing up unrelated facts. Going to AC for a work related conference is fine, however, STIPENDS for the people going with money taken out of the taxpayer dime are not. The taxpayer should pay transportation in lowest class of service, or mileage at the then current IRS rate. Also, bringing the A/C repair guy, also not OK.
Cell phones given for work purposes are OK, however, in this case, they provided no educational purposes, and who knows who got them anyways. And steak dinners? How about paying people with no names and social security numbers in the system, if you didn't have SS#s, how did you withhold income taxes?
If all those people voted with their feet, why was the voting at the ballot box so unbalanced in the other direction?

I'm upset about items in the older audits. I'm concerned about those issues.

I'm not as concerned about the lunch, which is issue you keep bringing up. I mentioned it because it seems to be very important to you.

We seem to have very different values. You support people that wasted money on stipends to AC. That must be what you value.

Sorry sweetie--- again, you provide cover for Kids First by setting up an environment of low expectations, "but that issue has existed for years"-- not true. A few short years ago Hoboken High School was declared the 2nd most improved high school in the state of NJ by New Jersey Monthly, it won back to back Bronze Medal Awards by US NEWS and WORLD REPORT and he exceeded Adequate Yearly Progress criteria. Since Kids First took over the schools, enrollment is down, the state ranking has plummeted, high school graduation rate is below the state average, and the school has failed to meet federal and state Adequate Yearly Progress criteria. Why? Perhaps 4 principles in 3 years? Perhaps a few years of tired and retired administrators? Perhaps because of ladder climbing administrators from other districts looing for their next job before the ink is dry on their contract? Because of teachers who miss 70+ days of being in their special education class and being protected because they are bff's with the Board President?

The issue hasn't existed for years--- its existed since Kids First took majority control of the district and started making profoundly ignorant and vindictive educational decisions.

I see the misogynist is at the keyboard.

Yeah a few short years ago they won awards while not testing the entire high school population. I don't trust the those numbers, which is part of how they got the awards.

In 2006 I moved to Hoboken, knowing I would eventually have a child in the public school. I was more concerned with info about the primary schools than the high school, because without a good foundation to build on the house is not going to be as strong. I was concerned about what I saw of the high school and new there would be time for it to improve before my child hit that age.

There is no way that I'm going to ever vote for Mr. Garcia, Mr. Raia, or their allies. And judging from the out comes a November election that they feared, I'm not the only one.

The assistant to the superintendent and the HS Principal admitted that not all kids were tested and that they worked toward putting an end to the 10r situation:

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/20784844/article-No-one-%E2%80%98cheated%E2%80%99-on-state-test-scores?

Look at these numbers and tell me there is nothing odd about them;
http://hoboken.patch.com/blog_posts/hoboken-high-school-by-the-numbers

Trenton has shown Hoboken how much it watches over things.

Call it whatever you like. But the enrollment numbers for the 11th grade for a decade was far beyond any acceptable standard deviation.

Whatever excuse the old administration had for those numbers, has not explained them to my satisfaction. I will never vote for that type of administration.

Oh man- are your serious with this KidsFIrst didn't actually win garbage?
Ok. Take away 5% points from Klupfel - what's he left with? Would Markevich beat that number? NO. As to the rest of your gibberish; and if donkeys could fly they'd be unicorns.
You really need to come to terms with the idea that intimidation, deceit, smear illegal contributions and Nazi Trucks is not the wave of the future.

If that is what you have to tell yourself so you can sleep at night. Good luck.

Journey- you are too smart by half. This year's district enrollment is so low that we will likely see per pupil cost exceed 30K for 2013-2014 and will likely be the highest in the country. Think of the attention Kids First will receive for their wonderful accomplishments.

While it's probably best to avoid discussions of kindergarten with people who can't spell the word, I'll forge ahead. I'll take your word for it that there are 2 more kindergarten classes than the previous year, but that doesn't necessarily mean there are more kindergartners. It could be that they are putting fewer children in each class, thereby necessitating more classes/teachers. Or perhaps they decided to offer kindergarten in more of the buildings. Or perhaps there were 2 more classes the previous year and, after a slight decline, the numbers are back up again.
And the idea that there are more families than "in the past" is, frankly, ludicrously uninformed. Are you aware that this city once had 70,000 residents and probably 10,000 students in its schools. In case you hadn't noticed - seeing that you're so busy with your pre-schooler - there are several old school buildings in town that are now apartments.
Trust me, I sleep fine at night. The Mayor and her team put their full force behind the incumbent Kids First candidates, and they barely managed to eek out the victory. Moving the election to November was seen as a way to score landslide victories to infinity and beyond for their side. All this school board election did was prove that it's still anyone's game.
For what it's worth, here's my prediction: Carmelo Garcia is forced out at Housing and then runs against Ms. Zimmer for mayor. Not my choice, my prediction.

I'm looking for letter from the district.

If I remember, it said they had planned for 2 additional classes and then had to add two more.

So lets see, if I ran your post through a grammar and spelling checker, it would be prefect? In the letter they said it was because of higher percentage of per-k 4 stundents were staying in the district for kindergarten than the previous years.

November elections was about increased voter turn out, not controlling who would win. And voter participation in the school board was high.

Hold on there boy- peitions for mayor are out now. Carmelo would have to be fired pretty darn quickly for that to happen. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Btw, kudos on the whole there aint more kindergarteners thang- Pure genius.

We're stickin with the Kids First did not win , Zimmer hates bnr and any smear, lies and decit you can pull, platform for now.

Will get back to you with new strategy when it is decided upon. Keep up the great work. One more thang- remember- smear lies and spin. If ya aint doin that, ya aint doin a good job.

As you were....

and no- say the numbers.

"keep losing"??? Last year Kids First was swept weren't they? --

Sometimes its not so bad to be in the minority. This may be one of those years as the cumulative effects of Kids First 4+ years in total control become fully realized- rising per pupil costs, low enrollment, school violence, below average graduate rates, extremely low SAT scores, very low NJASK scores, the Newark-Bayport employment agency (most recently getting rid of the acting VP in HHS for yet another friend of Dr. Hernandez and product of the Newark School District), school choice problems, lack of AP materials, ridiculously small class sizes, over staffing, reconfiguration (7th grade in Hoboken High School?), more food service audit issues, and more articles from the Wall St Journal, US News and World Report, and NJ Monthly as Hoboken tops the $30K per student levels while providing a sub-standard education for its taxpayers-- forcing most residents to pay an extra $10k-$15K "education tax" for having to send their children to private schools if they don't get into one of the city's charters.

Yes, KF haven't lost since elections moved to November. Now we know why you were so afraid of higher turnout.

Talking about "last year" is typically disingenuous. So I see that you decided against a new years resolution where you stop talking to people like they're idiots.

ThisMeansWar says----- KF hasn't lost "since elections moved to November"???LMAO--- what has then been, 70 days ago? and then ThisMeansWarsays I'm disingenuous? Ridiculous.

Kids First won the election but a quick examination of the results clearly show there were more "no" votes for KF than affirmative votes (translation: Waiters was a clear "old Hoboken" vote whose supporters could not bring themselves to vote for any of the Move Forward team or any of the KF candidates...for whatever reason). They didn't win because more votes were cast-- they won because of bullet voting by many of the same people who voted in Biancamano, Kearns, and Garcia the year before.

NP - Thomas KLUEPFEL 4,259 17.10%
NP - Jean Marie MITCHELL 4,097 16.45%
NP - Ruth McALLISTER 4,216 16.93%
NP - Anthony OLAND 3,499 14.05%
NP - Elizabeth MARKEVITCH 4,019 16.14%
NP - Felice K. VAZQUEZ 3,481 13.98%
NP - Patricia WAITERS 1,284 5.16%

Yeah! That's it. You tell em Gal. As always, you and Madison are pure genius. Kids First didn't win, we got lots of ways to explain why.

We got Cryan's letter in telling how the vote count was bogus, then we got us some mathematically impossible situation goin and now we're runnin with the whole idea of there are always 9000 voters who vote for school board.

Keep it goin peeps. Kids First did not win..Kids First did not win... If we say it enough, maybe the voters will believe.

"Kids First won the election..." -CuriousGal 7:10 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Why are you wasting your time here inventing reasons other than turnout for why your BOE ticket lost? You have all that reading to do.